Charter Amendment Petition Signature Certification

At a glance

What: On 8/31/2026 City Clerk Johnson read into the record a letter dated July 29, 2026 from the Franklin County Board of Elections certifying its examination of a petition for an initiated charter amendment that the board received from the Clerk on July 20, 2026.
Numbers: 23,211 raw signatures examined; 15,945 valid (68.6 percent). 125,329 voters took part in the 2025 general municipal election, so ten percent is 12,533, which the valid count exceeds.
Legal sufficiency: the Clerk also forwarded the City Attorney's memorandum of July 29, 2026 on legal sufficiency, as Section 42-9 of the City Charter requires. The memorandum's findings are not recorded in the minutes.
Source of the letter: Mackey, Manager of Petitions and Campaign Finance.
Not stated: the minutes do not say what the petition proposes, and no vote was taken. Whether it relates to Council District Elections Charter Amendment Correction is not stated.
Where it stands: received by Council; next steps are not in the records read.

Board of Elections certification and City Attorney memorandum communicated to Council by the Clerk.